The Influence Mechanism Of Actor Network On Local Government Environmental Governance Performance

From an actor perspective,the structural embedding process is heterogeneous across actor subject types,with social individuals embedding in social networks and local governments embedding in organizational networks.Actors themselves are influenced by preferences,social individuals are influenced by preferences from the social level,and government individuals are influenced by their policy preferences.These two influences work together to form the production process of environmental governance performance(EGP),which ultimately has an impact on EGP.Based on the above theoretical perspective,this study constructs a theoretical analysis framework based on social network theory by sorting and analyzing existing studies related to influencing EGP,and conducts an empirical analysis using CGSS(2017)data and policy text data published by provincial governments.This study uses social capital as a representation of social individuals embedded in social networks at the level of social individuals,and the stock of social capital as a core explanatory variable,through perceptions of social equity,and expectations of government functions as intermediate variables,to influence subjective perceptions of local governments’ EGP as explanatory variables.At the local government level,the centrality of the local government sector network,the sectoral network characteristics consisting of network density and legitimacy policy preferences affect local government EGP.The empirical results of the testing of the research hypotheses indicate that: at the individual society level,social capital positively influences the subjective perception of EGP;social equity perception plays an imperfect mediating role between social capital and the perceived performance of local government environmental governance,and government functional expectations moderate the mediating role of social equity perception.At the local government level,the centrality of local governments’ sectoral networks positively affects EGP,and network density positively affects local governments’ EGP;government legitimacy preferences negatively affect local governments’ EGP.